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Author:

Burnham, Michelle, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96116947

Title:

Transoceanic America : risk, writing, and revolution in the global Pacific / Michelle Burnham.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1700-1899
American literature--18th century--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Intercultural communication in literature.
American literature.
Intercultural communication in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: transoceanic America -- Part I. Connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic -- Narrative: trade and time in early Pacific travel writing -- Numbers: calculation and speculation in the eighteenth-century novel -- Politics: Violence and gender in the revolutionary Pacific -- Part II. Reading Novels across Oceans -- Circles: seduction and revolution in the travels of Hildebrand Bowman -- Coils: financial speculation and global revolution in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond -- Cycles: Atlantic slavery and Pacific botany in William Earle's obi -- Circuits: female bodies and capitalist drive in Leonora Sansay's secret history -- Epilogue: towards a transoceanic American literary History.

Summary:

This volume explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in the American Revolution and its influence on early American culture and literature. It studies the transoceanic connections between the Pacific and Atlantic and the political and literary developments that accompanied the period's explosion in global maritime travel.

Series:

Oxford Studies in American Literary History

ISBN:

9780198840893
0198840896

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1076415993

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)